After unloading guests at Siskiyou siding for a bus trip back to Ashland, the "Sunset" enters Siskiyou Line Tunnel 13. An SP official next to me dryly observed, "I sure hope the D'A... (more)

The Trains and Tripods program put on by the California State Railroad Museum allows photographers the chance to photograph the museum without the crowds. Southern Pacific Cab Forward No.4294 was ... (more)

The Trains and Tripods program put on by the California State Railroad Museum allows photographers the chance to photograph the museum without the crowds. The engineers seat in Southern Pacific Ca... (more)

Southern Pacific Steam Rotary No. 205, built in 1920 by Alco-Cooke was donated to the California State Railroad Museum. The Rotary was on display during the museums Trains and Tripods program. You... (more)

Southern Pacific Steam Rotary No. 205, built in 1920 by Alco-Cooke was donated to the California State Railroad Museum. The Rotary was on display during the museums Trains and Tripods program. You... (more)

Now at rest inside the roundhouse at the California State Railroad Museum, Southern Pacific P-8 Class Pacifc #2467 is on loan from the City of Oakland and the Pacific Locomotive Association. 2467... (more)

Last of her kind, Southern Pacific AC-12 Class "Cab-Forward" #4294 was also the last new steam locomotive ordered by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Designed to battle the long, steep gr... (more)

SP 4449 rolls over the Lake Oswego Railroad Bridge over the Willamette River, towing the train use to carry the Chairman of Genesee and Wyoming.

California, 1943- a female hostler has just finished tending to P-8 Pacific #2467 inside the Sacramento Roundhouse. Soon the husky Pacific will be backed out, serviced, and assigned to a troop tr... (more)

An RVMEM waits in the siding at Gazelle as a loaded lumber drag out of Medford passes on the main line. If a meet was needed on the south end of the Siskiyou Line, Gazelle was the preferred locati... (more)

Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS's "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion pauses at Klamath Falls for a crew change. The train carried passengers from Portland to Redding, CA and return.

At sunset on a late winter day, the Copic Local pounds the BN diamond at Stronghold. The upper quadrant semaphores were installed by Great Northern to protect the crossing with the Modoc Line. The... (more)

Bound for the Great Western interchange with empties for Lakeview, the Alturas Turn descends Howards Gulch on the Modoc Line.

Old vs new as this 1941 built steam locomotive passes the new Max extension to Milwaukee

With threatening skies behind, SP 3207 in SPSF colors cuts out the swing helpers at Loma Linda before proceeding Westward.